Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, northwest of Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel; west of Syria; southeast of Greece; and south of Turkey. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Cyprus was placed under the UK’s administration based on the Cyprus Convention in 1878 and was formally annexed by the UK in 1914.
About Cyprus in brief
Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, northwest of Lebanon, Palestine, and Israel; west of Syria; southeast of Greece; and south of Turkey. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Cyprus was placed under the UK’s administration based on the Cyprus Convention in 1878 and was formally annexed by the UK in 1914. The Republic of Cyprus has de jure sovereignty over the entire island, including its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone. However, the Republic is de facto partitioned into two main parts: the area under the effective control of the Republic, located in the south and west, and the north, administered by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, covering about 36% of the island’s area. The international community considers the northern part of Cyprus occupied by Turkish forces. The occupation is viewed as illegal under international law and amounting to illegal occupation of EU territory since Cyprus became a member of the European Union. The island has an advanced, high-income economy and a very high Human Development Index. Cyprus is a major tourist destination in the Eastern Mediterranean and is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. The classical form of the name is Cypriot. Suggestions for the name are unknown, but it is believed to be derived from the Latin word for copper through the phrase Cuprum, meaning’metal’ or ‘coconut’ The earliest attested reference to Cyprus is the 15th century Mycenaean Greek word kri-pi-ri-jo, meaning ‘cocoon’ or ‘metal of Cyprus’.
The standard demonym relating to Cyprus or its people is Cuprum or Cypriot or its culture is ‘Cocoon.’ Cyprus was granted independence in 1960 and has been a members of the Commonwealth since 1961 and the Non-Aligned Movement since 2004. It joined the eurozone on 1 January 2008, and joined the Eurozone on 1 May 2008. It has a population of around 2.5 million people (as of 2011). It is the largest island nation in the Middle East and one of the most densely populated in Europe. Cyprus has a long-standing dispute with Turkey over the ownership of the north of its territory. Turkish leaders for a period advocated the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as Cyprus was considered an \”extension of Anatolia\” by them; while, since the 19th century, the majority Greek Cypriots and its Orthodox church had been pursuing union with Greece, which became a Greek national policy in the 1950s. In 1974, a coup d’état was staged in an attempt at enosis, the incorporation of Cyprus into Greece. This action precipitated the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 20 July, which led to the capture of the present-day territory ofNorthern Cyprus in the following month, after a ceasefire collapsed. The move was widely condemned by the international community, with Turkey alone recognising the new state.
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